45: Stratco Employee Reviews

Not hard work, good people, I advanced to assistant manager after a year, negotiate a good pay of you advance to management, if you don’t they will pay you the minimum,

Pros

Good people

Cons

Pay isn’t great

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Can't keep staff, so everyone else is overworked

Sales (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 14 April 2021

Working '38' hours is a myth. There is an expectation to work 1.5hrs overtime each day, even if not exactly spoken about; this would be due to being understaffed. The company as a whole do not work together nicely. When there are certain departments for each division of Stratco and its products, none of them seem to help each other, leaving unresolved issues and blaming of problems. Retail stores seem left to fix issues they are not part of, even though the retail staff are meant to be serving customers, there is too much work put on them that is not 'their' job, meaning they are then expected to work unreasonable hours. The whole company needs a massive system overhaul in order for their issues to be resolved, even minor issues seem to be ignored if they don't affect management enough.

Pros

Great Pay, more interesting than most retail work, great discounts

Cons

Long hours, un-cohesive team

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Coasters galore

Manufacturing, warehouse (Current Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 25 November 2020

Buddy with line supervisors gets you everything If not you are expected to work hard to be appreciated They only care about looking after themselves.

Pros

Free lunches, BBQs, award nights

Cons

HR also suck

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Toxic work environment with Toxic management

Trade sales representitive (Former Employee) - Newcastle NSW - 10 August 2020

Stratcos state retail management team and the other "supporting" staff members who offer you assistance never provide you with help. I worked at Stratco for a little over a year and not once did I feel the management would provide assistance. In advance to that, the store I worked at had toxic store manager. This man would only provide assistance if you were doing well in regards to your KPI's and never offer assistance if it meant you would beat him. Small minded people making poor business decisions in the retail sector. Further to this, excellence was never once commended. If you achieved your targets and exceeded by a long way, you were never congratulated.Poor incentive structure depending on what side of the business you are on. For me, I was never made aware that there was an incentive on offer until I randomly received one. But in saying that, the incentive structure seemed to change month to month and would never be the same.

Pros

Good team members

Cons

Poor management

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Not a great place

Trade Sales Representative (Former Employee) - Canning Vale WA - 6 August 2020

Terrible place to work, culture is toxic, everything is too hard. Management at a National Level is poor, they don't trust anyone that hasn't worked in the business for less than 10 years.

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Don't expect much

Machine Operator (Former Employee) - Adelaide SA - 3 June 2020

Don't expect anything , no real training given due to day shifts not doing their jobs properly your expected to work until next day work is finished you could be forced to work until 2-3am

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Worst place I’ve worked

Worker (Former Employee) - Adelaide SA - 24 May 2020

I worked there for over 1 year and I can honestly say that if it weren’t for the horrible way management treated myself and other people, I’d still be there. They have Un reasonable expectations and you never get any appreciation for the hard work you put in, anything that goes wrong is never accepted and the blame is constantly passed to the people below management.

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Gathering of stupid

Machine Operator/Labourer (Former Employee) - Huntingwood NSW - 31 March 2020

New management don’t like you to think for yourself (If you don’t mix well with stupid save urself the hassle) Don’t bother applying if your white , white man hasn’t been hired there in years !

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Great Team - All the staff work well together

Sales Assistant (Part-time) (Current Employee) - St Agnes SA - 14 January 2020

Stratco is a family owned business, this reflects on the lifestyle and ways the company goes about training and learning procedures. Making sure all the team is prepared for any situation they may be faced with.

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It was up to the individual to whether their day was going to be hard or not .

Storeperson/Forklift Operator (Former Employee) - Laverton VIC - 7 January 2020

Great place to work at, management had a great attitude towards their staff and gave them respect. Which showed on the quality of workmanship. Unfortunately they moved locations and it wasn't feasible for myself.

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Toxic place to work

Retail Sales (Former Employee) - Epping VIC - 27 November 2019

Toxic and demeaning culture that has no heart. Sacked me for no reason and had to get out immediately. More products in patios and roofing are way overpriced

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The worst sales team culture

Trade Sales account Manager Queensland (Former Employee) - Yatala QLD - 29 October 2019

Stratco would have to be the worst sales team culture for any business i have been in. A real boys club and the less work you do the more you are promoted. If you work hard and do your job you get punished and treated poorly. Management really only talk to the boys club and the office is overly full of gossip....if you want to have a good work place, dont work here!!!

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Enjoyed working for them

Roll form operator (Former Employee) - Adelaide SA - 22 August 2019

I was very fortunate to receive the training and support that I did not to mention the friendship of the production manager as well as the supervisors which I still have contact with today

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Productive and great starting opprtunity

Picker/Packer Forklift Operator (Former Employee) - Canning Vale WA - 21 August 2019

The Beginning of new start I was able to travel too South Australia and help my mother with bill as we lived together at that time...Not to long after that travelled to Geraldton.

Pros

Good Pay

Cons

Long hours

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work experience

Drilling pilot holes (Former Employee) - Adelaide SA - 25 July 2019

I did many different jobs there, I was packing the metal into plastic bags and put a plastic strap on them, I had to roll metal for the gutters, I also had to load stuff on to a truck

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Enjoyable outdoor role in the garden department

Garden Department Assistant (Current Employee) - Gepps Cross SA - 11 July 2019

Provide and handle any customer inquiries, complaints, refunds and questions using effective interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Speak to suppliers on a regular bases in regards to plants that need ordering for stock, customers or landscapers. Order, receive, stock and manage plants within the nursery. Face out and present stock for customer purchase as well as provide general store maintenance and cleanliness.

Pros

great staff

Cons

long hours

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Good Place

Cleaner (Former Employee) - Blacktown NSW - 3 March 2019

I worked there as a Cleaner under Afford Employment for about four hours four days a week as a casual I worked at night shift from 6 pm onwards to 10 pm

Pros

working in closed hours

Cons

all alone

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Good colleagues

Internal trade sales (Current Employee) - Perth WA - 10 January 2019

Good colleagues, no opportunity for advancement. Nice offices, good facilities, some good management. No pay reviews or opportunities for pay rises or promotions

Pros

Good colleagues

Cons

No advancement opportunities

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Workplace

Production Worker (Current Employee) - Huntingwood NSW - 3 December 2018

Bad place to work. They care abt u. Work like a dog Its a place were you dont want to come to work cause as soon as you turn up you want to leave. Bad working conditions. Not a happy place.

Pros

No life

Cons

Long hrs

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Terrible

Leading hand (Former Employee) - South Adelaide SA - 24 September 2018

Low wage, no advancement, a bullying culture, lack of any training. management does not care about anything that's happens as long as their product gets out the gate. You are expected to do long hours and if you need to finish after doing your standard hours you are made to feel bad about it.

Pros

Not much

Cons

Everything

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Good intensions for work/lifestyle culture which is necessary for Darwin environment.

Sales and Trade Representative (Former Employee) - Darwin NT - 21 July 2018

This business has more than it needs as a facility to dominate the local market over a set period of time. Unfortunately, like many businesses it lacks experienced and quality management due to transiant nature of the Northern Territory economy.